Alexia Benavent: De aquí, De allá - Connecting with Home - Ceramic Exhibition
When you see Benavent’s work, the first thing you will come to realize is its deep connection to place, exploring fragility through use of soft and hard materials.
“In a diaspora, often the only thing you can take from your home are memories. Suddenly everything can be a reservoir of memory,” Benavent says. “Old photos of a favorite restaurant, a bowl you used every day from your mother’s kitchen, even rusty tools from a childhood home can become treasured keepsakes and tangible connections to places that are not the same and may only exist now in this handful of remembrances. In a world that so strongly wants to deny you a place, they take you back to a time you didn’t even realize was so precious. Anything too big to fit in a suitcase is left behind forever. Items like photos are some of the last reminders of a home now long gone.”
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